Trraxx vs Pips!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trraxx
Receive real-time alerts for blocked train crossings. This community-driven app relies on user updates to inform others about train traffic. Favorite specific crossings to stay informed about your regular routes.
- Train crossing notifications
- User-reported status updates
- Favorite crossing management
- Push notification alerts
- Community-driven data
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Trraxx pre-notifies you when an intersection is blocked off by a stopped or busy train. The app entirely depends on users to update the status of a crossing if it hasn't already been updated. Users can favorite crossings to receive status updates for those specific areas This app is only functional after you give your consent to allow Push Notifications upon launching the app the first time. Owner : Scott Scherring Developer : Fadel Sobh
Pips!
Generate custom tone sequences for time synchronization, inspired by global broadcast signals. Control frequency, duration, and volume to create unique 'pips' for personal or professional use. Includes presets from international broadcasters.
- Build custom pip sequences
- Control frequency, duration, and volume
- Use built-in presets
- Recreate historical time signals
- Generate new tone combinations
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Pips is a tone sequence generator inspired by the alluring & mysterious Greenwich Time Signal and its countless friends broadcast around the world. Both amateur and professional pip connoisseurs have the power to recreate time signals of yore or innovate new combinations of boops that will delight the world's radio lovers and keep things in sync. Become time by becoming boop. This is your goal. Features! - Build a sequence of one or more custom pips and play them through your device. - Control the frequency, duration, and volume of your pips so people of all ages can keep their clocks on time. - Use our built in presets to kickstart your new pip-filled existence. Includes time signals used by international broadcasters like the BBC & CBC as well as time stations like NIST's WWV. Pips will give you the power to tame time by delineating it in your own personal style. Synchronize yourself, your family, your life. You control time now. Congratulations.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trraxx at none against Pips!'s 1. Trraxx also leads on ratings volume (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Pips! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Trraxx asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Trraxx against 5.0 for Pips!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Trraxx ships an update every 27 months, Pips! every 25 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trraxx | Pips! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 25 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HALL OF FAME | Jason Thompson |
Customer experience
Trraxx
Pips!
In-app purchases
Trraxx
No in-app purchases
Pips!
- Tip Jar$4.99
